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title: satyr — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «satyr» in the school dictionary: In ancient Greek myths, a wild creature with a man's upper body and a goat's legs and horns, who loves music, wine and dancing. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# satyr

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**Who acts:** horns, satyr, man · **What happens:** love, play, ask, do · **To what, where:** music, pipes, woods, that · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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«satyr» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 3 examples, every sentence parsed by Mova itself — its syntax tree, a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, and its pragmatics clause by clause. The word in the dictionary, with its sense in the lessons: [satyr in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/satyr.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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In ancient Greek myths, a wild creature with a man's upper body and a goat's legs and horns, who loves music, wine and dancing.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:satyr:m1:1
# text = In ancient Greek myths, a wild creature with a man's upper body and a goat's legs and horns, who loves music, wine and dancing.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	myths	myth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	loves	love	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	dancing	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | present | horns | music and wine and dancing |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer music=Stimulus |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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The satyr played his pipes in the woods.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:satyr:x1:1
# text = The satyr played his pipes in the woods.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	satyr	satyr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	pipes	pipe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | past | the satyr | satyr's pipes |  | the woods |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pipe=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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How unkind of those ugly satyrs!

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:satyr:x2:1
# text = How unkind of those ugly satyrs!
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	unkind	unkind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	satyrs	satyr	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The satyr asked why the man did that.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:satyr:x3:1
# text = The satyr asked why the man did that.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	satyr	satyr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the satyr |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** | past | the man | that |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |

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**Text:** the school dictionary of Mova's schools (`world/data/dictionary-schools/`), written for Mova. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each meaning and example read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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